An ROC-type measure of diagnostic accuracy when the gold standard is continuous-scale

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 481-493

  Obuchowski, Nancy A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordance; Diagnostic accuracy; Discrimination; ROC area; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ROC CURVE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 31744447672     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2228     Document Type: Article

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